Clearfield County Assistance Office
Phone: 814-765-7591 or 1-800-521-9218
Income cash (TANF) and food assistance (SNAP), medical assistance health coverage, long term living services
LIHEAP home heating and energy assistance
Phone: 814-765-0684 or 1-800-862-8491
Central Pennsylvania Community Action
Phone: 814-765-1551
Provides food pantry programs, housing assistance, heating assistance, home repairs, weatherization and other programs
WIC Women, Infants and Children
Phone: 814-765-7035
Supplemental for low to moderate income women, from pregnancy through infants and children up to age five, as well as parenting fathers, offering nutrition education, breastfeeding support and healthy foods.
Also with offices serving Clearfield County in Coalport 672-5514; DuBois 375-9060; Philipsburg 342-6993; Houtzdale 378-6217
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES
Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Phone: 1-800-799-SAFE
Provides a search by county, zip code or gps to find domestic violence programs in your area
Community Action Inc./Crossroads
Phone: 1-800-598-3998 or 1-814-938-3580
Domestic violence program which provides services and support for counseling, safety planning, legal advocacy, emergency housing, prevention programs
PASSAGES (Prevention & Service for Sexual Assault through Guidance, Empowerment, & Support)
Phone: 1-888-716-9677
Provides individual & group counseling, legal advocacy, sexual violence prevention education programs
Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Phone: 1-800-799-SAFE
Provides a search by county, zip code or gps to find domestic violence programs in your area
Community Action Inc./Crossroads
Phone: 1-800-598-3998 or 1-814-938-3580
Domestic violence program which provides services and support for counseling, safety planning, legal advocacy, emergency housing, prevention programs
PASSAGES (Prevention & Service for Sexual Assault through Guidance, Empowerment, & Support)
Phone: 1-888-716-9677
Provides individual & group counseling, legal advocacy, sexual violence prevention education programs
Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs
Phone: 1-800-662-HELP
Department overseeing treatment and provider search for drug and alcohol treatment and funding by county or zip code
Phone: 1-800-525-5437 or 814-765-1149
Clearfield-Jefferson Drug and Alcohol Commission
Phone: 1-800-892-9002
Phone: 1-888-686-1991 or 814-765-5337 or 814-371-1100
Phone: 1-833-572-5008 or 814-768-7575
Child Care Works & Keystone STARS / ELRC2/ Subsidized Childcare
Phone: 814-765-1546 or 1-800-442-5807
The Early Learning Resource Center for Region 2 is based through the Clearfield County League on Social Services
Child Care Provider & Early Childhood Education Programs Search
Keystone STARS program information
Assistance with childcare, child care providers search, Keystone STARS information, resource and referral information
Online application for childcare subsidy
Pennsylvania’s Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL)
Pennsylvania’s oversight division creating opportunities and overseeing services to the Commonwealth’s youngest children and their families which falls under the Department of Human Services and the Department of Education. Divisions under OCDEL include: Certification, Early Intervention, Policy & Professional Development, Bureau of Operations and Monitoring, Child Care Works and Keystone STARS. Contains contact information for services in each county.
Children’s Developmental Milestones
Developmental milestones are behaviors or physical skills and traits seen in infants, toddlers and young children as they grow and develop that are typical among children of a certain age group. Developmental milestones provide a guide to development by months and years.
CDC’s Developmental Milestones website and quiz
PA Promise’s Developmental Milestone Checklist
Early Learning GPS has an app for tracking milestones
Find licensed child care facilities as well as other learning programs in your area through COMPASS Provider Search by county, address or school district.
Early Intervention Services CONNECT Helpline
Phone: 1-800-692-7288 for referrals
Screening for children ages birth to five, assessing communication, cognition, motor skills, social-personal and adaptive behavior and providing services for children with a delay of 25% or greater compared to other children.
Ages Birth-3: Service Access and Management (SAM)
Phone: 814-372-7020
Ages 3 – 5 (School Age) Central Intermediate Unit 10
Phone: 814-342-0884
Family Centers
Family Centers are an initiative of Pennsylvania’s Department of Human Services and offers a range of services for children and their families to promote economic self-sufficiency and healthy development and health care for children within their community. CenClear Child Services operates the Family Center.
Phone: 814-342-5678 or 1-800-525-5437
www.dhs.pa.gov/citizens/childcareearlylearning/headstart
Head Start is a federal and state-funded early childhood education program that offers education, health and social services at no cost at a classroom site and in the home to low income children ages 3, 4 & 5 and their families. Early Head Start in Clearfield County is a home visiting program at no cost to families for pregnant women and their children up to the age of 3.
CenClear Head Start/Early Head Start
Phone: 814-342-5678 or 1-800-525-5437
PA Home Visiting Programs
For more information about Pennsylvania’s Home Visiting Programs, visit PA Promise’s site
Visit the PA Department of Education’s page on Family Support Programs
The Guidance Center and Parents as Teachers
Phone: 814-371-0613
Home visiting program for children and their parents which provides home visits, developmental screenings, resource connections and group activities.
Phone: 1-800-445-6262
Provides nursing home visits for expectant first-time mothers which follows the family through the child’s second birthday
Pre-K Counts provides high quality half and full day pre-kindergarten programs for 3 and 4 year olds in schools, child care centers and preschools to families between 130% and 300% of the federal poverty guidelines.
Phone; 814-342-5678 or 1-800-525-5437
Children’s Aid Society Day Care Center
Phone: 814-765-2686
Little Hands Child Care Center/SMILES-DuBois
Phone: 814-375-5539
West Branch Area School District
Phone: 814-345-5627
Phone: 814-342-0884
Provides educational services and support services to the local school districts
Job Search and Employment Training
A range of job search and training options include job search assistance, unemployment benefits, employment training and workforce preparation for families currently receiving assistance benefits. Work Ready provides outreach services to recipients on the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF).
PA CareerLink at Clearfield County
PA CareerLink Clearfield County at Clearfield
Phone: 814-765-8118
PA CareerLink Clearfield County at DuBois
Phone: 814-371-0250
Central PA Community Action
Phone: 814-765-1551
GED Information
Free adult education classes for adults ages 17 or older who are no longer enrolled in high school to assist them in obtaining their GED or brushing up on academic skills to enter post secondary education or the workforce.
Central PA Community Action, Inc. serving Clearfield and Centre Counties
Phone: 814-765-1551
Phone: 814-765-2641
Provides information and links about county government including the court system, county commissioners, emergency management/911, Clearfield County Children, Youth & Family Services, Clearly Ahead Development, Voter information and much more.
Clearfield County Domestic Relations
Phone: 814-765-5339
Works with families to establish and enforce support obligations for children and spouses
Clearfield County Children, Youth & Family Services
Phone: 814-765-1541
Phone: 1-800-932-0313
Office of Children, Youth & Families Western Division
Phone: 412-565-2339
Regional office overseeing the county children and youth agencies within the Western Region, including Clearfield County
Obtaining Child Abuse Clearances, Criminal Background Checks, NSOR Clearance and FBI Fingerprinting
The website Keep Kids Safe provides links to apply for PA ChildLine Child Abuse Clearances, PA State Police Criminal Record Checks, the new National Sex Offender Registry clearance (NSOR) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Fingerprinting
Pennsylvania Association of Housing & Redevelopment Agencies
Clearfield County Housing Authority
Phone: 814-765-2485
Central Pennsylvania Community Action
Phone: 814-765-1551
Provides food pantry programs, housing assistance, heating assistance, home repairs, weatherization and other programs
Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
Phone: 1-800-986-KIDS (5437)
Children’s Health Insurance Program for uninsured children teens not eligible for medical assistance
Medical Assistance Clearfield County Assistance Office
814-765-7591 or 1-800-521-9218
Medical Assistance Transportation Program
Phone: 1-800-822-2610 or 814-765-1551
Transportation services to medical appointments
Phone: 1-877-PA-HEALTH
Phone: 1-800-318-2596
US Government website that has a marketplace of health insurance plan options. Application is subject to an Open Enrollment period in which purchasers can enroll. Special enrollment options exist for changes such as loss of insurance, change in residence, certain life changes like the birth or adoption of a child or death of a family member.
Dental Care
Pennsylvania Dental Association
Vision Care
Pennsylvania Optometric Association
Find a vision specialist by address
Centre Eye Physicians and Surgeons
Phone: 814-342-2444
Phone: 814-765-6579
Laurel Eye Clinic
814-765-6963
Walmart Vision Center- Clearfield
814-765-5151
814-765-1192
814-342-5361
Prescription Discounts
1-800-222-2818 https://familywize.org/
Family Wize offers a free prescription discount card and drug price comparison tool to help lower the cost of common medications.
An array of mental health and behavioral health providers, including counseling, service coordination, wraparound services and more
Community Care Behavioral Health
Phone: 1-844-488-5336
Single point of contact and managed care company overseeing behavioral health services
Service Access and Management (SAM)
Phone: 814-372-7020
Community Connections of Clearfield/Jefferson Counties
Phone: 814-371-5100
CASSP Coordinator Age 3+: Christine Werner 814-590-8992
CenClear Child Services
Phone: 814-342-5678
Children’s Behavioral Health
Phone: 814-372-2308
Phone: 814-371-0613
PA Association of County Administrators of Mental Health and Developmental Services– Local Contacts
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) /Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Phone: 800-906-9887
Provides a tax credit for working individuals and families with low to moderate incomes
Programs that provide a home visitor to help pregnant and parenting families of young children with topics such as prenatal care, breastfeeding, infant and toddler care, child development, health and nutrition, and family support.
Early Head Start CenClear Child Services
Phone: 814-342-5678
Nurse Family Partnership Home Nursing Agency
Phone: 814-937-5309
Parents as Teachers CenClear Child Services Family Center
Phone: 814-342-5678
Parents as Teachers The Guidance Center
Phone: 814-371-0613
Triple-P Parenting Children’s Aid Society
Phone: 814-765-2686
Parenting and Family Support Programs
Parenting programs provide education for parents, children and teens within a group setting and sometimes within an individual setting utilizing information on topics such as development, discipline, communication, managing feelings, coping with stress and problem solving.
Nurturing Parenting Programs Children’s Aid Society
Phone: 814-765-2686
Nurturing Parenting Programs The Guidance Center
Phone: 814-371-0613
Pennsylvania Voter Registration www.votespa.com
County Elections Contact for questions 814-765-2642
Online Pennsylvania Voter Registration Form www.pavoterservices.pa.gov/Pages/VoterRegistrationApplication.aspx